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Koo-koo-ka-choo Mrs. Robinsons

12/19/2016

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​My mom, Mrs. Robinson, was a language arts teacher at the same junior high school that I attended. Her classroom was next door to another English teacher also named Mrs. Robinson. They were both in the seventh grade hall, not far from the front office. I didn’t have my own mom for my English teacher. I had the other Mrs. Robinson, who was very nice and I enjoyed her class. I can still remember her voice and face from the days she patiently taught an unteachable kid like me.
Though ​I was glad I didn’t have my own mom for a teacher, there was one week a year that I wished I was in her class. It was one of my favorite times in junior high, when my cat Poppy got to go to school with me.
 
Each year my mom’s class read “The Incredible Journey,” a story about three animal friends traveling across Canada together, surviving against all odds, to get back to their family. One of the animals was a Siamese cat (the other two were dogs, a Labrador and a Terrier) and since my kitty happened to be a Siamese, and quite a lovely sweet docile one at that, he got to spend the day in my mom’s classroom so her students could experience a Siamese firsthand.
 
At lunch and every break, of course I was in her classroom so I could visit my kitty. He was happy to see me too, since it was all a little discombobulating for him to start the day with a [hated] car ride then spend the day in a crate with a bunch of noisy middle schoolers messing with him.
 
Those special days were a highlight for me. How many kids get to take their favorite pet to school with them? But then it would end and I’d go back to my regular routine, back in the other Mrs. Robinson’s room. Which was okay really. I liked her a lot. She had a daughter whose name was also Cheri Ann, though she was about ten years younger than I was. We went to the same pediatrician and more than once they got our charts mixed up on my doctor visits and had to straighten out which one actually belonged to me. Students from the school also got us mixed up sometimes, wondering which Mrs. Robinson was my mom. We’d be talking and they’d learn that my mom was one of the English teachers named Mrs. Robinson. They’d say, “Really? Wow. Which one is your mom?”
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Mrs. Vera Robinson, my English teacher.
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Mrs. Janell Robinson, my mom.
​Clearly, they’d not met both of them yet when they asked me that.
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Sheri George
12/19/2016 06:51:15 pm

LOL! Love that story!

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Corilee Williams
12/19/2016 07:38:36 pm

I liked Mrs. V. Robinson too. We were in her class together. Do you remember that she made the very bad mistake of telling us she was petrified of snakes? So, what did we do (as a class)? Of course, we put a rubber snake in her desk drawer where she kept her purse! She saw it and screamed, and after she composed herself, she laughed because she said it scared her even though she knew it was rubber. Luckily for us, she was a good sport about it and we didn't get in trouble.

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Cheri
12/19/2016 08:17:27 pm

She was a Vera good sport!!!! What a mean prank. I'm glad she was okay with it. Our poor teachers! None of them was safe when we were around! They probably saw us coming and ran the other way. Haha.

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